Josh Schmidt is a composer and sound designer. Off-Broadway: The Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre; 4 Lortel Awards including Best Musical; 2 Outer Critics Awards including Best Musical Off-Broadway; 4 Obies; 9 Drama Desk Nominations; 1 Drama League Nomination); Crime and Punishment (59E59). Regional work at venues across the country including (in Chicago) at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Writers Theatre In Glencoe, Next Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Seanachai Theatre Company, and many others; and at the Alley Theatre (Houston), the Kennedy Center and Ford’s Theatre (Washington DC), Bard College (NY), Seattle Repertory Theatre (WA), South Coast Repertory (CA), American Players Theatre (Spring Green), Madison Rep and UW-Madison (Madison), and in Milwaukee at Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, and dozens of others. As a recitalist of new music he has performed at Kunstverein Genthiner 11 and Rumänisches Kulturinstitut in Berlin, Germany, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Mississippi-Oxford, and throughout his home state of Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2003-2005 NEA/TCG Career Development Program Award and was named one of nine emerging designers in Entertainment/Design Magazine in 2004. He has received 2 Jeff Awards, 1 After Dark Award, and multiple nominations for his composition/sound design work in Chicago. In addition, his work was part of the sound design exhibition at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.